Clarivate South and Southeast Asia Innovation Forum 2021

Clarivate South and Southeast Asia hosted the Innovation Forum virtually on 21st Sep.

This edition of the event had a key focus on “Driving sustainable innovation: More critical than ever”.

The Innovation Forum is a unique platform for senior leaders in organizations to share best practices and transformational initiatives to stimulate IP creation and its growth and discuss challenges encompassing the same.

Innovation Awards 2021

We also unveiled the winners of South and Southeast Asia Innovation Awards 2021 at the event.

Through these yearly awards, we aim to honor the most innovative commercial enterprises, research organizations and academic institutions headquartered in South and Southeast Asia for their spirit of innovation and encourage the growth of innovation in the region. Click here for the awards press release.

Welcome Note

Mr. Rajat Sikka
Sales Director – IP Group, Southern Asia
Clarivate, India

How Clarivate accelerates the pace of innovation?

Mr. Jeremy Lawson
Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Customer Success – IP Group
Clarivate, United Kingdom


Keynote Address

Mr. KRS Jamwal
Executive Director
Tata Industries, India


Spotlight:

– Innovation in South and Southeast Asia
– Announcement of 2021 South and Southeast Asia Innovation awards

Ms. Ridhma Dhar
Regional Client Manager
Clarivate, Singapore


Panel Discussion – Mission based eco-systems: A new paradigm for innovation

– What are mission-based ecosystems and how relevant are they in the new normal?
– Who are the key players in these eco-systems and how are their roles integral to successful working of the eco-system?
– Role of Innovation and IP in defining and solving challenges that matter.

Mr. Chalermpol Tuchinda
Vice President
NSTDA, Thailand

Ms. Azimah Abdul Kadir
Head, Market & Product Strategy, Business Partnership & Commercialization
MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

Dr. Hemang Shah
India Engineering Lead (Startups, Innovation)
Qualcomm Technology Licensing, India

Prof. Thusitha Abeytunga
Lead Academic Expert Research and Innovation
AHEAD Operation, Sri Lanka

Moderator:

Mr. Vasheharan Kanesarajah
Head of Strategic Development – IP Group
Clarivate, United Kingdom


Panel Discussion – The Green Imperative: Leveraging IP to drive sustainable innovation

– The role of sustainability officers to influence innovation within the organization
– Collaboration between sustainability, innovation and IP teams to protect and drive value from innovation creation
– Role of strategy to align business and IP to achieve sustainable innovation

Dr. Vishal Sodha
Global Head of IP
UPL Limited, India

Mr. Prad Kerd Pairoj
Director of Sustainability, Asia
Thai Union Group PCL, Thailand

Ms. Marilyn Johnson
Senior Director, Global Sustainability
Clarivate, USA

Moderator:

Mr. Arun Hill
Consultant, Analytics and Advisory Group
Clarivate, United Kingdom


Closing remarks

Mr. Shounak Dongre
Account Manager
Clarivate, India


Voice of customer

At the Innovation Forum this year, we also shared what some of our customers had to say about Clarivate.

Mr. Ranil Vitarana
Chief Innovation Officer
MAS Holdings


Mr. Jyoti Sagar
Managing Partner
K&S partners


Dr. Noel A. Catibog
Director, Technology Transfer and Promotion Division (TTPD)
Republic of the Philippines, DOST PCAARRD


Dr. Rajat Agrawal
Associate Dean-Innovation and Incubation
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee


Dr. Sudha Kannan
Head – Patents Cell and Knowledge Centre
Aditya Birla Science & Technology Company Private Limited